page_title: Siem Reap
section_title: Transportation
hierarchical_section_title: Siem Reap / Transportation
caption_attribution_description: English: The boat from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap
context_page_description: Siem Reap is the capital city of Siem Reap Province in northwestern Cambodia.
  Siem Reap has colonial and Chinese-style architecture in the Old French Quarter and around the Old Market. In the city, there are museums, traditional Apsara dance performances, a Cambodian cultural village, souvenir and handicraft shops, silk farms, rice paddies in the countryside, fishing villages and a bird sanctuary near the Tonle Sap Lake, and a vibrant, cosmopolitan drinking and dining scene.
  Siem Reap today—being a popular tourist destination—has many hotels, resorts, restaurants, and businesses closely related to tourism. This is much owed to its proximity to the Angkor temples, the most popular tourist attraction.
context_section_description: The town is 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) from Siem Reap-Angkor International Airport (IATA code REP) and is accessible by direct flights from many Asian cities, and by land from Phnom Penh and the Thai border. It is also accessible by boat (via Tonle Sap lake). There are also buses from Phnom Penh and Battambang, with buses between Phnom Penh and Siem Reap taking about 6 hours. A new airport is planned 60 kilometres (37 mi) from Siem Reap.
  It is possible to get from Bangkok to Siem Reap via Poipet. The road from Poipet to Siem Reap is newly paved and sealed as of 2013. If travelers take a taxi from Bangkok to Poipet and from Poipet to Siem Reap, it is possible to complete the whole journey in 6–10 hours, depending on border-crossing times. This journey is also possible by bus and minibus. Tickets can be bought online via the official Nattakan website. Getting to Siem Reap from Bangkok is also possible by train via the Aranyaprathet station to the border with Cambodia and later via shared mini-buses or taxis to Siem Reap.
  Siem Reap will have high speed rail lines to Phnom Penh that are currently in the feasibility study being conducted by CRECG.
caption: Boat from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap
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